Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • Perceptions of Possibility and Probability Are Always Determined by Knowledge

    Jan 7, 2020, 10:23 AM One’s perspective on the chances of separation are determined by (a) knowledge of military history, strategy, and end of Westphalian and restoration of traditional conflict (4gw). (b) knowledge of the fragility of the USA, and its cities, how rapidly it will collapse, and how it can be exploited, ( c) knowledge of a compromise solution that will minimize resistance. If you have a history of life achievement and know these things, it’s just ‘work’: another project that needs doing. it’s not a problem of knowing what to do. This isn’t a time for democratic majoritarianism. it’s a time for a minority to force ultimatums.

  • You Want Parsimony? 😉

    Jan 9, 2020, 5:03 PM RECIPE

    1. A Heroic Narrative of Truth, Duty, Oath and Contract, Heroism, Excellence, Achievement, Mindfulness and The direction of dominance expression to the production of commons.

    2. Ethnocentrism, Nationalism, The universal military as the polity, The individual as the subject of Law and the Family as the subject of Policy

    3. Aristotelianism: Realism, Naturalism, Operationalism, Empiricism, Testimonial Truth (science)

    4. Rule of law by Natural Law of Reciprocity and via positiva markets in everything, and a  via negativa Market for the Suppression of parasitism in court.

    5. A Power Distribution of law, Pareto Distribution of Capital, and Nash Distribution of Returns.

    6. A majority genetic middle class and the suppression of the reproduction of the underclass (unproductive).
      GIVEN THE SPECTRUM OF HUMAN FACILITIES 

    1. Sense Facility (stimuli)
… … Perception (composition)
… … … Association
2. Logic Facility (constant relations)
… … Imagination Facility (prediction)
… … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation)
4. Grammar facility (statements)
… … Paradigms ('metaphysics', 'dimensions')
… … … Frame ('boundaries') 
… … … … Context ('pragmatics')
… … Grammar (rules of continuous recursive disambiguation)
… … … Syntax (rules of sentences)
… … … Stories
… … … … Sentences
… … … … … Phrases
… … … … … … Clauses
… … … Operations (logic)
… … … Vocabulary (Semantics)
… … … … Rules of Organization (Morphology)
… … … … Sounds (Phonology)
… … … … Signs (acts, actions)
… … … … Marks (records)
… … … … … accidental
… … … … … intentional
… … … … … … Mark
… … … … … … Symbol
… … … … … … … Glyph
… … … … … … Pictogram
… … … … … … Picture
… … … … … … Picture Series
… … … … … … Animation
4. Communication Facility ("Language")
( ... ) 3. (epistemology)

      WHERE THE SPEECH IS CONSISTS OF: 

    1. Complete Sentences
2. In promissory form
3. In testimonial form
4. In operational vocabulary (as actions)
5. From an observer’s point of view
6. Absent the verb to-be (is, are, was, were…)
7. Including all changes in state
8. Including all consequences of change in state
9. Producing a series of testable transactions.

    WARRANTIED AS:

    1. Existential >
... 2. Realism >
... 3. Naturalism >
4. Possible >
... 5. Operational - Demonstrable >
... 6. Empirical - Externally Correspondent >
... 7. Logical > 
8. Rational >
... 9. Rational Choice - Demonstrated Preference >
... ... 10. Incentives - Demonstrated Interest >
... ... ... 11. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... ... ... 12. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... ... ... 13. Status, Reputation, Kith
... ... ... 14. Several Interests (in many forms)
... ... ... 15. Common Interests (in many forms)
... 16. Reciprocal >
... ... 17. Productive
... ... 18. Fully Informed 
... ... 19. Voluntary Transfer >
... ... 20. Free of Negative Externality >
21. Survivable >
... 22. Power Distribution of Law >
... 23. Pareto Distribution of Assets >
... 24. Nash Distribution of Rewards >
25. Complete >
... 26. Consistency, Coherence, Limits, Completeness
27. Warrantable >
... 28. Liable and Warrantied, within the Bounds of Restitution.

    IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRUM OF DEMONSTRATED INTERESTS

    ... 1. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... 2. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... 3. Status, Reputation, Kith
... 4. Several Interests (in many forms)
... 5. Common Interests (in many forms)

    BY RECIPROCAL OR IRRECIPROCAL MEANS

    Where Reciprocity Consists in:
... Productive, 
... Fully informed, sufficient to meet demand for infallibility 
... ... Free of
... ... ... ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, 
... ... ... loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, 
... ... ... fictionalisms, 
... ... ... baiting into hazards, frauds, and deceits.
... Voluntary transfer, of demonstrated interests, 
... ... Free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, 
... and Within the limits of restitutability,
... and Liable and warranted by due diligence against all of the above.

    And Where Irreciprocity Consists in: 
... Failing any one of the criteria for Reciprocity.

    IN PURSUIT OR AVOIDANCE OF THE SPECTRUM OF CRIMES

    1.  Murder,
2.  Violence, Harm
3.  Theft, Destruction
4.  Deceit, Fraud, Baiting into hazard
5.  Free Riding, Socialization of Losses, Privatization of The Commons,
6.  Conspiracy,
7.  Conversion,
8.  Immigration,
9.  Warfare
10. Conquest

    FOR MORAL(ETHICAL) OR IMMORAL PURPOSES 

    .. .. .. .. Evil - interpersonal, extrapersonal, irreciprocity without gain (harm for harm's sake)
.. .. .. Immoral - extrapersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. .. Unethical - interpersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. Criminal - direct irreciprocity at gain
Amoral - no affect on others at gain.
.. Reciprocal - direct reciprocity at gain
.. .. Ethical - interpersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. Moral - extrapersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. .. Good - interpersonal, extrapersonal, reciprocity without gain (investment, for investment's sake)

    USING THE SPECTRUM OF GRAMMARS

    (Deflationary Grammars)

… Truths (Sciences)
… … Formal Sciences
… … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) 
… … … Mathematics 
… … … Algorithms
… … … … Recipes
… … … … Protocols, Procedures
… … Physical Sciences
… … … Physics
… … … Chemistry
… … … Biology
… … Human Sciences
… … … Consciousness
… … … Metaphysics (language)
… … … Psychology (individual)
… … … Sociology (group)
… Descriptions 
… … Testimony                 (^ - deflationary Grammars)
… … Rhetoric (persuasive Grammars) 
… Communication
… … Ordinary Language                        (Descriptive Grammar)
… … idiomatic language
… Narrations                  (v-  inflationary Grammars) 
… … Narrative (history, explaining) 
… … … Storytelling (loading, framing) 
… … … … Fictions (analogies, teaching)
… Deceits 
… … … Fictionalism (pretense of knowledge)
… … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic 
… … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and 
… … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult 
… … … Obscurantism (Obscuring creating ignorance)
… … … … Overloading 
… … … … Propaganda 
… … … … Social Construction
… Frauds
… … … Misdirection (lying)
… … … Baiting Into Hazards
… … … Fraud (for gain) 
… … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain)

(Inflationary Grammars)

    AND THE SPECTRUM OF CIVILIZATIONAL WISDOM LITERATURES

    Aristotle.......Real/Natural: .....Science (Decidability) Law
Plato: .........Ideal/Natural: ....Sophistry (Justification) Philo
Confucian:....Real/Myth-Natural:...~Reason(Harmony) Reason
Hindu: ......Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Harmony) Mytho.
Persian .....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (?) Mytho/Philo.
Egyptian.....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Order) Mytho.
Semitic......Unreal/Supernatural:..Fraud(Authority) Theo.

    We are forever bound by the grammars of our wisdom literatures. (Grammar: paradigms, vocabulary, logic, grammar) WE INVENTED TRUTH AND THEY INVENTED LYING IN RESPONSE

    .....Female and Semitic vs Male and European
..............Dysgenics vs Eugenics
............Consumption vs Capitalization
....Private Consumption vs Commons Production
............Undermining vs Order
...Approval/Disapproval vs True/False
.........Incrementalism vs zero tolerance
..Plausible Deniability vs Warranty
..................GSRRM vs Truth Regardless of Cost
...............Critique vs Falsification
.................Pilpul vs Justification
..........False Promise vs Promise
....Baiting into Hazard vs Offers of Reciprocity
...............One Herd vs Many Packs

  • You Want Parsimony? 😉

    Jan 9, 2020, 5:03 PM RECIPE

    1. A Heroic Narrative of Truth, Duty, Oath and Contract, Heroism, Excellence, Achievement, Mindfulness and The direction of dominance expression to the production of commons.

    2. Ethnocentrism, Nationalism, The universal military as the polity, The individual as the subject of Law and the Family as the subject of Policy

    3. Aristotelianism: Realism, Naturalism, Operationalism, Empiricism, Testimonial Truth (science)

    4. Rule of law by Natural Law of Reciprocity and via positiva markets in everything, and a  via negativa Market for the Suppression of parasitism in court.

    5. A Power Distribution of law, Pareto Distribution of Capital, and Nash Distribution of Returns.

    6. A majority genetic middle class and the suppression of the reproduction of the underclass (unproductive).
      GIVEN THE SPECTRUM OF HUMAN FACILITIES 

    1. Sense Facility (stimuli)
… … Perception (composition)
… … … Association
2. Logic Facility (constant relations)
… … Imagination Facility (prediction)
… … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation)
4. Grammar facility (statements)
… … Paradigms ('metaphysics', 'dimensions')
… … … Frame ('boundaries') 
… … … … Context ('pragmatics')
… … Grammar (rules of continuous recursive disambiguation)
… … … Syntax (rules of sentences)
… … … Stories
… … … … Sentences
… … … … … Phrases
… … … … … … Clauses
… … … Operations (logic)
… … … Vocabulary (Semantics)
… … … … Rules of Organization (Morphology)
… … … … Sounds (Phonology)
… … … … Signs (acts, actions)
… … … … Marks (records)
… … … … … accidental
… … … … … intentional
… … … … … … Mark
… … … … … … Symbol
… … … … … … … Glyph
… … … … … … Pictogram
… … … … … … Picture
… … … … … … Picture Series
… … … … … … Animation
4. Communication Facility ("Language")
( ... ) 3. (epistemology)

      WHERE THE SPEECH IS CONSISTS OF: 

    1. Complete Sentences
2. In promissory form
3. In testimonial form
4. In operational vocabulary (as actions)
5. From an observer’s point of view
6. Absent the verb to-be (is, are, was, were…)
7. Including all changes in state
8. Including all consequences of change in state
9. Producing a series of testable transactions.

    WARRANTIED AS:

    1. Existential >
... 2. Realism >
... 3. Naturalism >
4. Possible >
... 5. Operational - Demonstrable >
... 6. Empirical - Externally Correspondent >
... 7. Logical > 
8. Rational >
... 9. Rational Choice - Demonstrated Preference >
... ... 10. Incentives - Demonstrated Interest >
... ... ... 11. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... ... ... 12. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... ... ... 13. Status, Reputation, Kith
... ... ... 14. Several Interests (in many forms)
... ... ... 15. Common Interests (in many forms)
... 16. Reciprocal >
... ... 17. Productive
... ... 18. Fully Informed 
... ... 19. Voluntary Transfer >
... ... 20. Free of Negative Externality >
21. Survivable >
... 22. Power Distribution of Law >
... 23. Pareto Distribution of Assets >
... 24. Nash Distribution of Rewards >
25. Complete >
... 26. Consistency, Coherence, Limits, Completeness
27. Warrantable >
... 28. Liable and Warrantied, within the Bounds of Restitution.

    IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRUM OF DEMONSTRATED INTERESTS

    ... 1. Body, Mind, Memory, Effort, Time 
... 2. Mates, Offspring, Kin
... 3. Status, Reputation, Kith
... 4. Several Interests (in many forms)
... 5. Common Interests (in many forms)

    BY RECIPROCAL OR IRRECIPROCAL MEANS

    Where Reciprocity Consists in:
... Productive, 
... Fully informed, sufficient to meet demand for infallibility 
... ... Free of
... ... ... ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, 
... ... ... loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, 
... ... ... fictionalisms, 
... ... ... baiting into hazards, frauds, and deceits.
... Voluntary transfer, of demonstrated interests, 
... ... Free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, 
... and Within the limits of restitutability,
... and Liable and warranted by due diligence against all of the above.

    And Where Irreciprocity Consists in: 
... Failing any one of the criteria for Reciprocity.

    IN PURSUIT OR AVOIDANCE OF THE SPECTRUM OF CRIMES

    1.  Murder,
2.  Violence, Harm
3.  Theft, Destruction
4.  Deceit, Fraud, Baiting into hazard
5.  Free Riding, Socialization of Losses, Privatization of The Commons,
6.  Conspiracy,
7.  Conversion,
8.  Immigration,
9.  Warfare
10. Conquest

    FOR MORAL(ETHICAL) OR IMMORAL PURPOSES 

    .. .. .. .. Evil - interpersonal, extrapersonal, irreciprocity without gain (harm for harm's sake)
.. .. .. Immoral - extrapersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. .. Unethical - interpersonal irreciprocity at gain
.. Criminal - direct irreciprocity at gain
Amoral - no affect on others at gain.
.. Reciprocal - direct reciprocity at gain
.. .. Ethical - interpersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. Moral - extrapersonal reciprocity at gain
.. .. .. .. Good - interpersonal, extrapersonal, reciprocity without gain (investment, for investment's sake)

    USING THE SPECTRUM OF GRAMMARS

    (Deflationary Grammars)

… Truths (Sciences)
… … Formal Sciences
… … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) 
… … … Mathematics 
… … … Algorithms
… … … … Recipes
… … … … Protocols, Procedures
… … Physical Sciences
… … … Physics
… … … Chemistry
… … … Biology
… … Human Sciences
… … … Consciousness
… … … Metaphysics (language)
… … … Psychology (individual)
… … … Sociology (group)
… Descriptions 
… … Testimony                 (^ - deflationary Grammars)
… … Rhetoric (persuasive Grammars) 
… Communication
… … Ordinary Language                        (Descriptive Grammar)
… … idiomatic language
… Narrations                  (v-  inflationary Grammars) 
… … Narrative (history, explaining) 
… … … Storytelling (loading, framing) 
… … … … Fictions (analogies, teaching)
… Deceits 
… … … Fictionalism (pretense of knowledge)
… … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic 
… … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and 
… … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult 
… … … Obscurantism (Obscuring creating ignorance)
… … … … Overloading 
… … … … Propaganda 
… … … … Social Construction
… Frauds
… … … Misdirection (lying)
… … … Baiting Into Hazards
… … … Fraud (for gain) 
… … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain)

(Inflationary Grammars)

    AND THE SPECTRUM OF CIVILIZATIONAL WISDOM LITERATURES

    Aristotle.......Real/Natural: .....Science (Decidability) Law
Plato: .........Ideal/Natural: ....Sophistry (Justification) Philo
Confucian:....Real/Myth-Natural:...~Reason(Harmony) Reason
Hindu: ......Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Harmony) Mytho.
Persian .....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (?) Mytho/Philo.
Egyptian.....Unreal/Supernatural...Wisdom (Order) Mytho.
Semitic......Unreal/Supernatural:..Fraud(Authority) Theo.

    We are forever bound by the grammars of our wisdom literatures. (Grammar: paradigms, vocabulary, logic, grammar) WE INVENTED TRUTH AND THEY INVENTED LYING IN RESPONSE

    .....Female and Semitic vs Male and European
..............Dysgenics vs Eugenics
............Consumption vs Capitalization
....Private Consumption vs Commons Production
............Undermining vs Order
...Approval/Disapproval vs True/False
.........Incrementalism vs zero tolerance
..Plausible Deniability vs Warranty
..................GSRRM vs Truth Regardless of Cost
...............Critique vs Falsification
.................Pilpul vs Justification
..........False Promise vs Promise
....Baiting into Hazard vs Offers of Reciprocity
...............One Herd vs Many Packs

  • Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture

    Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/iran-and-the-cost-of-face-and-honor-culture/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 23:20:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265060200895168514

  • Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture

    Jan 11, 2020, 11:22 AM The Iranians are a Face-Before-Truth culture so they can’t do what Europeans do, which is say “We don’t know until we’ve investigated”. Instead they just denied – a Face-Before-Truth response. It’s the same reason we can’t believe anything that comes out of that part of the world – the muslim world is Face-Before-Truth, and Respect without Earning it. On the other hand europeans won’t speak the whole truth and explain why the conflict exists, nor do we state that it’s aristotelian truth, literacy, rule of law, capitalism, and reducing the reproduction of our underclasses – not democracy – that made the west successful. And that democracy is a disaster for non-europeans who have not also developed those institutions. In europe our honor comes from truth before face, and respect when earned. This is heroic. It is to bear personal sacrifice on behalf of the polity. And it puts constant pressure on the ‘lower classes’ to improve their behavior. So this is why europe is high trust, builds large organizations, relatively free of corruption, and why it’s materially good for underclasses but they’re continuously under social pressure to ‘mature’ into paying the high costs of truth before face, earning respect by behavior, defense of the commons, and doing one’s duty regardless of cost.

  • Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture

    Jan 11, 2020, 11:22 AM The Iranians are a Face-Before-Truth culture so they can’t do what Europeans do, which is say “We don’t know until we’ve investigated”. Instead they just denied – a Face-Before-Truth response. It’s the same reason we can’t believe anything that comes out of that part of the world – the muslim world is Face-Before-Truth, and Respect without Earning it. On the other hand europeans won’t speak the whole truth and explain why the conflict exists, nor do we state that it’s aristotelian truth, literacy, rule of law, capitalism, and reducing the reproduction of our underclasses – not democracy – that made the west successful. And that democracy is a disaster for non-europeans who have not also developed those institutions. In europe our honor comes from truth before face, and respect when earned. This is heroic. It is to bear personal sacrifice on behalf of the polity. And it puts constant pressure on the ‘lower classes’ to improve their behavior. So this is why europe is high trust, builds large organizations, relatively free of corruption, and why it’s materially good for underclasses but they’re continuously under social pressure to ‘mature’ into paying the high costs of truth before face, earning respect by behavior, defense of the commons, and doing one’s duty regardless of cost.

  • A Chit Chat on Truth Objective Truth

    A Chit Chat on Truth Objective Truth https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/a-chit-chat-on-truth-objective-truth/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 23:18:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265059684005883904

  • A Chit Chat on Truth Objective Truth

    Jan 12, 2020, 4:08 PM

    —“Curt Doolittle there is objective truth. Not sure the reasoning to say otherwise.”—Tim Abbott

    Well, that’s ’cause you’re taking advantage of a weakness in english (and most) grammar. This allows you the confidence to claim you understand something when you don’t.

    1) Try to say that without the verb to-be. (is, are, was, were etc). Try it. 2) define truth. This is my area of specialization (falsifying presumptions of knowledge) Its like training people not to think in deities (anthropomorphic fictions). Same for platonisms (non-anthropomorphic fictions).

    —“Curt Doolittle I would be interested to learn where I am wrong. An animal dies. That becomes a fact. To say the animal is not dead is a lie.”—Tim Abbott

    ^which is a tautology. ( And also a reductio simplicity. ) I can speak truthfully. (adverb) You can speak truthfully. (adverb) What does it mean to speak ‘the fast’ (adverb) or ‘the red’ (adverb)? When you say “I promise the animal is dead” under what conditions are you not speaking truthfully? A fact is a promise of a theory of an observation. A theory is a promise of observations yet to be observed. All non tautological, non-trivial claims are forever contingent. One can only satisfy the demand for testimony in a given market (context) which defines limits. There is some most parsimonious vocabulary, paradigm, language, (right now it’s math at the limits of math). But math currently is too limited for the scope of demand for testimony. So, one can speak honestly, truthfully (falsifying with his limits of knowledge and reason), scientifically(testimonially, having done due diligence) on can speak tautologically within a given language, or we can imagine that someday somehow we may produce a most parsimonious language with universal commensurability (paradigm) – which is an ‘ideal’. If we spoke in that paradigm (an ideal) we would speak truthfully – consistently correspondently operationally completely and coherently, in the most parsimonious language (what you call objective). So, like ‘infinity’, ‘the truth’ is simply a variable we attribute to ‘i don’t know’ because I don’t know the limits. So one cannot claim ‘the truth exists’ one can say we can discover a means of speaking truthfully, meaning satisfying the market demand for infallibility in the context at hand. The truth, like infinity, is simply a statement of ‘we dunno that yet’. Ill try to do a better job per advice from Martin Štěpán: WHEREAS; 1. The universe exists. 2. The patterns of constant relations in the universe exist 3. We can correctly identify name and describe those patterns. The question is whether you are defining The Truth as those relations, or whether you are defining truth as the precision of our speech measured by parsimony, consistency, correspondence, completeness and coherence. AND WHEREAS; 1. patterns exist (realism naturalism determinism). 2. The potential for us to describe them perfectly free of error exists. 3. We identify increasingly precise means of naming and describing them. THEREFORE We therefore must invent: (a) a means of naming and describing them, (b) a means of discovering them. (d) discoveries of each of them (b) a means of continuously improving them. AND; 1 -Western man invented truthful speech (realism, naturalism, determinism, operationalism, testimonialism) 2 -Western man invented the means of discovering them (reason, empiricism, science, operationalism) 3 – Western man invented (by far) most of the discoveries using those inventions. THEREFORE; And this is why I’m so … consistent in my pursuit of the truth – so that we don’t revert back to the lies that dominate the rest of mankind.

  • A Chit Chat on Truth Objective Truth

    Jan 12, 2020, 4:08 PM

    —“Curt Doolittle there is objective truth. Not sure the reasoning to say otherwise.”—Tim Abbott

    Well, that’s ’cause you’re taking advantage of a weakness in english (and most) grammar. This allows you the confidence to claim you understand something when you don’t.

    1) Try to say that without the verb to-be. (is, are, was, were etc). Try it. 2) define truth. This is my area of specialization (falsifying presumptions of knowledge) Its like training people not to think in deities (anthropomorphic fictions). Same for platonisms (non-anthropomorphic fictions).

    —“Curt Doolittle I would be interested to learn where I am wrong. An animal dies. That becomes a fact. To say the animal is not dead is a lie.”—Tim Abbott

    ^which is a tautology. ( And also a reductio simplicity. ) I can speak truthfully. (adverb) You can speak truthfully. (adverb) What does it mean to speak ‘the fast’ (adverb) or ‘the red’ (adverb)? When you say “I promise the animal is dead” under what conditions are you not speaking truthfully? A fact is a promise of a theory of an observation. A theory is a promise of observations yet to be observed. All non tautological, non-trivial claims are forever contingent. One can only satisfy the demand for testimony in a given market (context) which defines limits. There is some most parsimonious vocabulary, paradigm, language, (right now it’s math at the limits of math). But math currently is too limited for the scope of demand for testimony. So, one can speak honestly, truthfully (falsifying with his limits of knowledge and reason), scientifically(testimonially, having done due diligence) on can speak tautologically within a given language, or we can imagine that someday somehow we may produce a most parsimonious language with universal commensurability (paradigm) – which is an ‘ideal’. If we spoke in that paradigm (an ideal) we would speak truthfully – consistently correspondently operationally completely and coherently, in the most parsimonious language (what you call objective). So, like ‘infinity’, ‘the truth’ is simply a variable we attribute to ‘i don’t know’ because I don’t know the limits. So one cannot claim ‘the truth exists’ one can say we can discover a means of speaking truthfully, meaning satisfying the market demand for infallibility in the context at hand. The truth, like infinity, is simply a statement of ‘we dunno that yet’. Ill try to do a better job per advice from Martin Štěpán: WHEREAS; 1. The universe exists. 2. The patterns of constant relations in the universe exist 3. We can correctly identify name and describe those patterns. The question is whether you are defining The Truth as those relations, or whether you are defining truth as the precision of our speech measured by parsimony, consistency, correspondence, completeness and coherence. AND WHEREAS; 1. patterns exist (realism naturalism determinism). 2. The potential for us to describe them perfectly free of error exists. 3. We identify increasingly precise means of naming and describing them. THEREFORE We therefore must invent: (a) a means of naming and describing them, (b) a means of discovering them. (d) discoveries of each of them (b) a means of continuously improving them. AND; 1 -Western man invented truthful speech (realism, naturalism, determinism, operationalism, testimonialism) 2 -Western man invented the means of discovering them (reason, empiricism, science, operationalism) 3 – Western man invented (by far) most of the discoveries using those inventions. THEREFORE; And this is why I’m so … consistent in my pursuit of the truth – so that we don’t revert back to the lies that dominate the rest of mankind.

  • Jan 17, 2020, 9:46 AM “Thou shalt not lie – That is what P boils down to.” —Ja

    Jan 17, 2020, 9:46 AM

    “Thou shalt not lie – That is what P boils down to.” —James Dmitro Makienko